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We were the international Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault (JCASA); and were dedicated to ending sexual violence in Jewish communities globally. We did our best to operate as the make a wish foundation for Jewish survivors of sex crimes. In the past we offered a clearinghouse of information, resources, support and advocacy.

Monday, November 29, 1999

A Grandfather from Tel Aviv was charged with raping and sodomizing his two grandchildren, a five-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl. According to the indictment, the man assaulted the youngsters while they were in his care at various times over the past two years.

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A 52-year-old man from the center of the country was charged Friday in Tel Aviv District Court with raping and sodomizing his two grandchildren, a five-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl. According to the indictment, the man assaulted the youngsters while they were in his care at various times over the past two years.

The man allegedly would tell his grandchildren he was "kissing them like grown-ups kiss," and demand they perform oral sex on him. Several of the incidents allegedly occurred while the children's mother and grandmother were cooking and he was alone with the children in the bedroom. The prosecution asked that he be held until the end of legal proceedings.

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Des Plaines police said they arrested a 42-year-old Skokie man after he arrived for what he thought was a sexual liaison with a teenage girl.

Howard M. Lichtenstein, of 9103 Pottawattami, was charged Friday with indecent solicitation of a child, according to a news release from the Des Plaines police department. Police picked Lichtenstein up about 1:45 p.m. at Maine West

Undercover officers posing on the Internet as a 15-year-old girl made contact with Lichtenstein earlier in the week, police said. Lichtenstein allegedly made sexual comments and set up the rendezvous at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, police said.

Lichtenstein, who police said has a practice in Skokie, drove up to Maine West at about 1:45 p.m. Friday, police said. He was arrested and charged with two counts of indecent solicitation of a child, said Des Plaines Police Detective Matthew McNamara.

The dentist appeared for a bond hearing Saturday in the Skokie branch of Cook County Circuit Court.

Des Plaines police arrested Howard M. Lichtenstein, 42, of 9103 Pottawattami Drive, Skokie, on Friday and charged him with two felony counts of indecent solicitation of a child.

Police said undercover officers posing as a 15-year-old high-school girl made contact with Lichtenstein over the Internet. Lichtenstein suggested mutual sexual activity while communicating with the officers for three days, according to police.

Lichtenstein suggested a meeting, and officers arranged to meet him outside Maine West High School at 1:45 p.m. Friday, police said. When Lichtenstein arrived at the school, he was arrested without incident.

"We arranged it about an hour before school would have ended because we didn't want it to happen with a lot of people outside," said Des Plaines police detective Matthew McNamara. "He would never have been allowed to go into the school."

Lichtenstein, a Skokie dentist, had been under investigation for several months, McNamara said.

Skokie Police Department spokesman Sgt. Michael Ruth said that Des Plaines had not contacted the Skokie department about the investigation.

"We had no previous contacts with (Lichtenstein) ourselves, neither at his home nor at his business, that I'm aware of," Ruth said.

The Skokie man operates a dental office at 4355 Howard St.

If convicted of the crime, Lichtenstein could receive four to seven years in prison for each count, McNamara said.

McNamara and another Des Plaines police officer check the Internet regularly as members of the Illinois Attorney General's Internet Child Exploitation Task Force. The arrest is the first in Des Plaines since the task force was formed about a year ago, McNamara said.

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Survivors ARE Heroes!

The Awareness Center believes ALL survivors of sex crimes should be given yellow ribbons to wear proudly.

Survivors of sexual violence (as adults and/or as a child) are just as deserving of a yellow ribbon as the men and women of our armed forces, who have been held captive as hostages or prisoners of war.

Survivors of sexual violence have been forced to learn how to survive, being held captive not by foreigners, but mostly by their own family members, teachers, camp counselors, coaches babysitters, rabbis, cantors or other trusted authority figures.

For these reasons ALL survivors of sexual violence should be seen as heroes!